"Man, despite his artistic pretentions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments, owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."
-Chinese proverb
The Broadened Horizons Organic Farm is a small, family operated teaching farm dedicated to the learning, the practice, and the teaching of sustainable based agricultural practices.
Our working, restored farm served as our living outdoor laboratory for the natural restoration of native soil fertility, slow release water retention, and the reforestation effort to create a diverse woodland canopy on portions of a former over-abused, rundown, and degraded cattle farm.
Through an outreach educational program that sponsored workshops in subjects of new farm or homestead start-up, permaculture design, earth systems awareness, organic gardening, rainwater collection and retention, and simple construction techniques to increase a building's energy efficiency and livability, we trained a few new farmers, and many others in the practice of simple and sustainable living.
